We performed a comparison between Board and Oracle Hyperion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Performance Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Where it used to take me three days at the beginning of the year to create the new financial statement, now it is a matter of minutes because all the data is in the system."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"BOARD technical support is knowledgeable and helpful."
"It has definitely saved us time, especially in our budget and planning processes."
"It is easy to make quick updates. As the business changes, we can maintain the tool without programming help from IT."
"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."
"we are able to easily export data. When directors need financial information, we can go in the system and export the data, then send it out so they have it ready and available. If they are not in the office, we can email it to them. In addition, all the managers are now more on top of their expenses and their budget."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"It's very easy to use and the functionality is quite complete."
"One can see that it's a mature product because it addresses all the requirements that you must need for financial consolidation and for budgeting and planning. It's really easy to use."
"The roll-up potential of the product is very good, meaning we have detailed information and we want it to be summarized, based on geography, based on different product lines, or based on different charts of accounts in the general ledger. It rolls up the information in a very concise way. This makes it easy to understand the overall performance, for it's forecasting aspects, or quarterly reporting, year to year, or month to month reporting."
"Oracle has an integrated solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Hyperion. It keeps the two platforms opened up to each other."
"The latest cloud version is more efficient for financial implementations."
"Since it is an enterprise-capable solution, people are not worried about security, giving data, the ability to manage complex consolidation, and its ability to modify reporting."
"The stability is fine and quite user friendly."
"The implementation has been simplified now that it's deployed in the cloud. Also, Hyperion is tightly integrated with Oracle products because Oracle owns it now."
"Some of our users are still using an MS Office add-in for Excel for certain calculations, and when they export from Board, some of the values, some of the totals and column names, are not coming through into Excel."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"The user interface is in need of improvement. The forms should be more user-friendly."
"The Oracle technical support in our area is terrible."
"The analytical side of the product could be better and needs to be improved."
"Configuration is a little complex, it's not very easy. The solution is integrated with Essbase and there are not many users of the Essbase database. If they can provide different modules for each subject area, like supply chain, for inventory forecasting or for order management forecasting, it would make each subject area easier to manage."
"Hyperion has much room for improvement, especially disaster recovery. You don't have the option to choose the proper disaster recovery method. We have Hyperion and an SQL server on the backend. We have active solutions for the backend database server, which aren't working for our people. They've asked us to remove the high availability to increase application performance."
"There's something known as a data block that Hyperion generates for each and every transaction. Sometimes it does not generate and we need to identify those issues and fix them manually."
"Oracle EPM Cloud solutions have simplified the security model. Nevertheless, it would be better having a more differentiated security model."
"I would love more comment capabilities so that you could put in little notes, cheat notes."
Board is ranked 11th in Business Performance Management with 35 reviews while Oracle Hyperion is ranked 2nd in Business Performance Management with 49 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Oracle Hyperion is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Hyperion writes "A world-class solution that provides a lot of functionality out of the box and also allows you to customize it to meet your needs". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and CCH Tagetik, whereas Oracle Hyperion is most compared with Tableau, Anaplan, IBM Cognos, Oracle HFM and Jedox. See our Board vs. Oracle Hyperion report.
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